No ferry fare in forked rates
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• The ferry freight charge between Britain and the Continent will be excluded from the bracket haulage rates which EEC member countries are now drawing up, as required under Community rules. Each of the new member countries of the Nine is in process of negotiating international road haulage rate scales with each of the other EEC members, through its principal haulage associations.
The associations have agreed that the ferry charges should be charged as a separate item from the haulage rates; the sea crossing has long been foreseen as a special complication in compiling UK-Continent forked-rate tariffs, and the allocation of costs to allow for the time taken in the sea crossings is still a problem for the negotiators.
The Road Haulage Association's international group is meanwhile asking members for more information about international haulage charges, to ensure that the rates in the bilateral tariffs are not set below current rates.